NEW ORLEANS — Crews were using a robot submarine to try to stop an oil leak nearly a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, but officials said it would take at least another day before they ...

With an increasing number of severe accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc has hit a snag in its attempt to saw through a riser pipe in a risky operation to funnel leaking oil from a blown-out well to the surface, the top U.S. official overseeing ...

SAN DIEGO-It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. And when it comes to the expensive, claustrophobic and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting natural gas and oil pipelines, that somebody ...

Kyoto-based Tmsuk Corporation (Tmsuk) has announced the development of a new legged pipe inspection robot called "SPD-X." The new robot can fit through pipes bigger than 7.87 inches (20 cm) in ...

LOS ANGELES — Want to clean up an oil spill? There’s a robot for that. A team of scientists at MIT have developed a fleet of oil-absorbing robots — Seaswarm — that clean the ocean by collecting oil ...

* Saw blade stuck trying to cut pipe, BP trying to free it * Once cut finished, BP aims to place cap on leak (Updates throughout with detail, quotes) By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, June 2 (Reuters) - BP Plc ...